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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Anselm Grundhoefer, Campbell, CA (US);
Mohamed Selim Ben Himane, Milpitas, CA (US);
Daniel Kurz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Identifying a specular surface, such as a mirror, in a captured scene includes extracting, from one or more images of the scene, a set of natural features and generating, from the image, a set of synthesized 'mirrored' features. One or more correspondences may be determined between the set of natural features in the image and the set of synthesized mirrored features. A first set of features are identified based on the determined one or more correspondences as representing a specular surface (e.g., a mirror) located in the scene, and then a geometry and/or location of the specular surface within the scene may be determined. For example, in some embodiments, the feature from a determined pair of corresponding features in a scene that is determined to be farther away from the device that captured the image(s) of the scene may be determined to be the feature lying on the specular surface.